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| The Beach Boys By the way, Brian in no way considers himself the equal of major Classical composers, though he has been called by some a genius. During the recording of Smile, he would float in his pool in the night, to relax between takes (he had a pro-quality ... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! No doubt about it, Neil Schon is a skilled guitarist, just not one I myself consider great. But then I feel the same about Hendrix, surely even more questionable an opinion! Great for me includes considerations of taste and style, not merely skill... | |
| Use 4 or 8 Ohm output tab for norminal 6 Ohm speaker? I believe the lower the tap, the lower the output impedance and distortion, always a good thing. | |
| 2016: a new year for music.... I love anyone and everyone who loves Lucinda. Now if you would only get into Iris Dement! I'll bet they love each other. | |
| The Beach Boys First, a correction: Pet Sounds was McCartney’s inspiration for not Rubber Soul, but Sgt. Pepper. I get them confused because Rubber Soul was Brian’s inspiration for Pet Sounds, Brian feeling RS was the first album ever with no filler.To put thing... | |
| Poorly Recorded - Chris Thile & Michael Daves Dusty---I feel the same way about a recording engineer I worked with for a while. He was big on mic’ing a drumset with only two mics---a stereo one overhead, and one on the front of the kick. Without a mic on each drum, they were lacking in presen... | |
| Which components are "stupid good"? Speaking of the Linkwitz speaker, there is a related product that is uniquely good---the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. The bass in the Linkwitz is produced by a similar design---two 12" woofers facing in opposite directions and wired in... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! You’re so right Marty---Yoko is as bad as it gets. Lennon really made a fool of himself by championing her. A couple of guys I find particularly distasteful are Michael McDonald and Steve Perry, though the Bands they were in (The Doobie Brothers a... | |
| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? The Townshend Seismic Pods or Bars suggested by infection are great, but not cheap. For as little as $75 for a pair of speakers you can try roller bearings. | |
| Best Drum Solos My nomination is not really a drum solo per se, but two little "breaks" played by Don Lamond, Woody Herman's drummer, in the Bobby Darin recording of "Beyond The Sea". Too cool for words! | |
| The Beach Boys Rich said a lot, the most important being that if one doesn’t hear "it", then one doesn’t hear it. Two who DID hear it in the music of Brian Wilson were Paul McCartney and Leonard Bernstein. Paul proclaimed Pet Sounds the best album ever made at t... | |
| Poorly Recorded - Chris Thile & Michael Daves I know nothing about this recording, but I saw Steve Earle with The Del McCoury Band at The House of Blues in Hollywood, and they performed into a single microphone. They were all playing acoustic instruments (guitars, upright bass, fiddle, mandol... | |
| 2016: a new year for music.... Hey Tostado, did you ever happen to see a guy named Paul Skelton play in Austin? He was a Telecaster/Deluxe Reverb player who worked with Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Cornell Hurd, Libbie Bosworth, and other Austin singers and songwriters. I was pla... | |
| What is the perferred material for a TT shelf? If your table is a non-suspended design: Two shelves of Baltic Birch Plywood separated by a slightly inflated bicycle inner tube, with the table sitting on three roller bearings arranged in an equilateral triangle. The most effective isolation sho... | |
| Phono pre "Break-In" process? Necessary? Just out of respect for Ralph Karsten, it's Atma-Sphere, not atmosphere. |